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Thanks all for the helpful information. While digging around the subject happened to stumble on this great little website as well which had really useful links.
https://greenityourself.com.au/
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Hello all,
Would like to know some of the best practices for keeping house warm in winter days without breaking the bank and reduce energy wastage. I live in 4 bedroom house with zoned ducted heating. (1 zone for master and one theatre area, next zone covers living area and last zone 3 other bedrooms).
Is there a particular time to schedule the heater to operate automatically and roughly how many hours do you guys keep the heater running per day (excludes extreme weather days of course).
Background : I've previously lived in 2 bed apartment which had split system for living area and we used oil column in bedroom. Now having moved to new place last year, it has zoned ducted heating (+ the oil columns Ive used previously, so quite different environments).
Cheers,
Totally dependant on how you use those zoned areas, over the period of the whole day.
And perhaps with a different program for weekends when the usage pattern may be different.
And what you find as a comfortable temperature, during the day, evening and overnight.
If your house is well insulated, it can be efficient to run the heating at a medium temp for longer, and let the thermostat do the work.